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HSU Emeritus & Retired Faculty Association (HSU -ERFA)

All Emeritus and Retired Faculty are invited to attend the monthly luncheon programs held at noon on the second Tuesday of the month at the Plaza Grill (Upper Floor) in Arcata. The cost of the luncheon is $10.00 per person, and spouses, guests, and friends are welcome. Coffee (free) will be available at 11:40 a.m. before the luncheon. Come early and have an opportunity to visit with old and new friends.

· Tuesday, September 15, 2009 – *NOTE: September’s meeting is the 3^rd Tuesday of the month, due to Labor Day weekend* PROGRAM: Saeed Mortazavi, Ph.D., Chair, HSU, Academic Senate, Chair and Professor, School of Business

· Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – PROGRAM: Raja Storr, HSU student – “The Tolowa: Obtaining Federal Recognition and Preserving Sacred Sites”

· Tuesday, November 10, 2009 – PROGRAM: Kim Hall, Veterans Coordinator, HSU – “Meeting the Challenges of Veterans at HSU”

· Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – PROGRAM: Stephen Fox, Emeritus Professor, History – speaking on his recently published book “Homeland Insecurity”

· Tuesday, February 9, 2010 – PROGRAM: Thomas Mays, Professor, History – speaking on his newly published book “Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War”

· Tuesday, March 9, 2010 – PROGRAM: Suzanne Pasztor, Associate Professor, History, “Golpe! The 2009 Coup in Honduras” – In the summer of 2009, the Honduran military kidnapped the country’s president, sending him into exile in Costa Rica. The ousted president did not go quietly, and a series of dramatic events continued to unfold as 2009 drew to a close. This presentation will explore the context of the coup and describe the latest developments in Honduras.

· Tuesday, April 13, 2010 – PROGRAM: Howard Stauffer, Professor, Statistics and Larry Fox, Emeritus Professor, Forestry, “Monitoring System for the Cameroon Rain Forest” – The speakers will describe their trip to Cameroon this past December to develop a monitoring system for the rain forest. Cameroon plans to benefit from carbon count offset funds by preserving their rain forests that will be monitored with this system.

· Tuesday, May 11, 2010 – PROGRAM: Joy Adams, Assistant Professor, Geography, “The North Coast Geotourism Council” – Joy Adams will share her experiences developing a service-learning partnership between students in the HSU Geography Department and the North Coast Geotourism Council. In collaboration with the BLM and National Geographic, the Council is developing an interactive Geotourism MapGuide for our region, which will be demonstrated during the presentation.

Note: In order to help defray the cost of mailing notices for the monthly luncheons, a voluntary contribution of $5.00 (each academic year) may be sent to the Academic Senate Office, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521. Checks should be made payable to: HSU General Faculty. You may also pay at the luncheon meeting.

Luncheon Notices: If you would like to request to be added or removed from the mailing list, please call the Academic Senate Office (707-826-3657), or send an email to Merry Phillips (mbs7001@humboldt.edu). All retired and emeritus faculty are automatically added to the ERFA mailing list. Luncheon notices are sent to local zipcodes only, unless requested otherwise.

Emeritus Faculty at HSU: The HSU Faculty Handbook, Section 540, describes the process of conferring emeritus status at HSU and the rights and privileges of emeritus faculty on campus. Emeritus faculty have the same rights as active faculty members for the use of university facilities and attendance at university functions. To the extent that resources permit, these rights include, but are not limited to the following: participation in academic ceremonies and university social life; library borrowing privileges, access to university computer systems and media services; maintenance of Email accounts, grant support through the HSU Sponsored Programs Foundation, contracting with the University for teaching or other services; secretarial and technician assistance; and insofar as space allows, use of an office on campus.

Parking: The following change to the parking policy was made 6/5/09: Pursuant to direction from the HSU President, HSUPD/Parking will issue to requesting emeritus HSU faculty a parking permit granting that individual member the special privilege of parking a vehicle in certain designated campus parking lots without charge. Before issuing the permit, HSUPD/Parking shall confirm the retired faculty member’s status as “emeritus” by cross-checking the member’s identification with the current official HSU emeritus roster.

The emeritus parking permit grants the individual member the right to park in General or Faculty/Staff lots only. The permit is to be used by the emeritus faculty member only, and use by persons other than the emeritus faculty member may result in a citation, seizure of the permit, and/or revocation of the right to receive an emeritus permit.

HSU ERFA Small Grant Competition: During Spring term of each academic year, the HSU Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association offers a limited number of small grants for probationary, tenure-line faculty at HSU to support a special project or travel. The following HSU faculty were awarded grants in Spring 2009:

· Joy Adams (Asst Prof, Geography) – Travel to attend the California Geographic Society Meeting & Field Course

· Charles Hoyle (Asst Prof, Physics) – Project title: Novel torsion pendulum for tests of the gravitational inverse-square law.

· Andrew Kinziger (Asst Prof, Fisheries Biology) – Project title: Long-term isolation and genetic divergence between populations of the threatened rough sculpin … .

· Anthony Kontos (Assoc Prof, (non-tenured), Kinesiology and Recreation Administration) – Travel to attend Psychological Factors Associated with Sport Concussion Outcomes Symposium

· Pasztor, Suzanne (Asst Prof, History) – Project title: Homeopathic Medicine in a Revolutionary Age: the Yucatan.